NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A neo-Nazi group that targeted Nashville communities during summer of 2024 faces a new lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The federal lawsuit, using an 1871 law created to target the Ku Klux Klan,…[Continue Reading...]
Conspiracy theories have played a role in American culture and politics for decades. In the course “Conspiracy Rhetoric: Power, Politics, and Pop Culture” at Bates College, students closely examine what propels those theories. Stephanie Kelley-Romano, a professor of rhetoric, film,…[Continue Reading...]
A woman who grew up in a cult where she was subjected to public beatings, days of food deprivation and being locked in a closet has laid bare the nightmare of growing up in fear. Actress and screenwriter Guinevere Turner,…[Continue Reading...]
In August 2019, an anonymous tipster reported that a company located in Portage, Utah, was illegally dumping chemical waste in ponds, sewers, storm drains and on the ground and had been doing so intentionally for months. Later that month, a…[Continue Reading...]
A televangelist in Kenya who was notorious for claiming to cure infertility in women died in a car crash on Tuesday, local authorities said. Gilbert Deya was killed in “a horrific road accident which involved several vehicles,” James Orengo, the…[Continue Reading...]
My first ever blog post here will be an attempt to share and explain my personal journey into the field of cultic studies and cult related activism/work that I have recently become more publicly involved with, especially in regards to…[Continue Reading...]
Gabriel and Sebastian Shemirani watched with concern as their mother Kate rose to notoriety during the pandemic, eventually getting struck off as a nurse for promoting misinformation about Covid-19. Then, their sister Paloma was diagnosed with cancer. Doctors told her…[Continue Reading...]
CLEARWATER — City Council members agreed Wednesday evening to seek a legal opinion on what terms it can attach to the proposed sale of city-owned land downtown to the Church of Scientology without opening themselves to legal liability. The request…[Continue Reading...]
Leah Remini has certainly come a long way since her days as a young girl growing up in Brooklyn. The brash actor has worn a slew of different hats since shooting to fame in the '90s: going from beloved sitcom…[Continue Reading...]
In Hollywood, Scientology is a highly controversial religion -- but despite the criticism, the church still happens to have quite a few famous faces in its inner circle. Tom Cruise is perhaps the most famous member of the church and…[Continue Reading...]
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